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Mobile game · 2022

Play this life

Experience life as a different person, do whatever you want with this new life you’ve been given, live like you’ve never lived before! This open-ended text-based life simulator packs real-world odds, novel-worthy storylines and an in-game clock together with realistic NPCs who grow and change alongside virtual you. Be born in a village in an underdeveloped country or be heir to the fortunes of the top 1%! Be cared for by your family, or feel what it’s like to have them absolutely detest you. Make your life story a beautiful romance or dedicate all of your time to growing your career. Live in the home of your dreams or struggle to get out of homelessness. Have children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, or just squander all of your money exploring life’s possibilities! No fixed storylines. No right or wrong answers. Just life as it is in your wildest dreams—and nightmares. With Play This Life, you now have so much more than just one life to live.

Estimated daily players

~900.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 9540

Estimated total players

~1,8000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 9003.6K

See what's trending

Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Jun 30, 2022AndroidiOSESRB 18

What the estimate rests on

  • Google Play 66%
  • App Store 34%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Play this life, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~90

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 9540

No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.

Estimated total players

~1,800

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 9003.6K

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Play this life per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~3,800

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Play this life where it is sold.

Google Play ratings

135

Average rating
3.4
Installs
10K+

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Ratings left on the Android listing. It is the broadest signal in the catalogue — about half of all games here have a Play page.

App Store ratings

30

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
3.7

Ratings left on the iOS listing, read from Apple’s public lookup endpoint.

Not tracked for Play this life: Steam, Discord, Reddit, YouTube, Twitch. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Play this life?

We estimate that about 1,800 people have played Play this life — plausibly between 900 and 3.6K. Around 90 of them play on a given day, in a range of 9 and 540. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play and App Store rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Play this life still active?

Yes. Play this life is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Play this life player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

When was Play this life released?

Play this life was released on June 30, 2022 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Play this life available on?

Play this life is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from Google Play and App Store (iPhone).

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